Guys we have been working with the leu. Tx. Rats for about 20 + years and the original male wild caught did not have bug eyes. I personally held him at the Houston Zoo many years ago. He was a totally white animal, but had all the other norml charactoristics. The bug eyes were the result of inbreeding of the line and can be corrected by out crossing a couple of different sourced leucistics with several normal females to produce hets and then breeding the hets back to each other from separate females. It corrects itself in one generation and if good breeding practices are the followed, we don't outcross to normals for at least 4 or 5 years. Of course that is easy for me to say when the normals are so prevalent here around the Houston, Texas area.
Our two cents worth,
John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
